| Surgeon Henry Charlesworth (later Lieutenant -Colonel) of the Army Medial Service here shown with the rank of captain. He also wears the ribbon for the 1878-80 Afghanistan Medal. Henry Charlesworth was born on 6 July, 1851 at Heath House, Longnor, Staffordshire the son of Moses and Hannah Charlesworth. He attended Ockbrook College in Derby. He received his commission as surgeon in the Army Medical Service on 31 March, 1875. Surgeon-Major - 31 March, 1887 Recruiting and Embarking Medical Officer (Portsmouth) - 1889 Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel - 31 March, 1895 Brigade-Surgeon-Lieutenant-Colonel - 29 May, 1898 Companion of the Order of St. Michael & St. George (C.M.G.) - 1902 Retires on retired pay - 4 October, 1902 Brevet Colonel - 8 August, 1917 Order of St. John of Jerusalem - 1917 He served in the Afghan War, 1879-81. Returning from Afghanistan on board HMS Crocodile in 1881 one of his shipboard companions was Neville F. F. Chamberlain who would later be credited with the invention of the game Snooker. He accompanied as medical officer the British mission to the Sultan of Morocco under Sir Kirby Green, K.C.M.G. in 1885 and again in 1890-91. Hew was created a Companion of the Oder of St. Michael & St. George for services during the Anglo-Boer War. In 1917 he received the Oder of St. John of Jerusalem for service in World War One during which (according to his obituary in The Times, 9 June, 1926) "he held important appointments on the north-east coast and received thanks of the Army Council". He married Lillian Armstrong of York in 1890. They had no children and she died in 1897. He married Constance Katherine Bennett in 1921. Colonel Henry Charlesworth, C.M.G., R.A.M.C., died in June 1926. Cabinet Photograph S. H. Dagg - Photographer Mussoorie & Allahbad, India December, 1897 |
